... out of politics. Also, Larry O'Hara left out another breakaway group, Anthony Read-Herbert's British Democratic Party, founded around Christmas 1979 and which collapsed after a World in Action expose in July 1981. And the magazine Forewarned was never published in Birmingham but from a box number in south London; its editor lives in Greenwich. Cold war, disinformation war In the 1980s the Second Cold War was fought partly by disinformation. The U.S. ran the 'KGB terror network' story, through Clare Sterling, with help from the Israelis, messers Crozier and Moss and others, and then the KGB-shot-the-Pope story. Against that the Soviet Union ran the story (with several variants) that AIDS ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 19) May 1990 Last| Contents| Next Issue 19 Truth Twisting: notes on disinformation David Teacher and Robin Ramsay This began as a review of Deacon's Truth Twisters by David Teacher, and grew as we both saw bits and pieces we could add to it. Richard Deacon's The Truth Twisters (McDonald, London 1987: Futura, London 1988) is a classic of Western disinformation purporting to describe Soviet disinformation. Deacon lines up all our favourite state and right-wing outlets to attack CND, ecologists, socially committed clergy etc. etc., and the master brain behind them all, the KGB. As sources Deacon cites: The Centre for ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 40) Winter 2000/1 Last| Contents| Next Issue 40 Disinformation: From Euros to UFOs A secret service? In the Guardian of 12 June 2000 David Leigh had an important piece on the relationship between our secret servants and the media. At the core of this was his account of the revelation, via a libel suit in London, of an MI6 operation to plant disinformation in the Sunday Telegraph about the son of Colonel Gaddafi. (1) The story was written by Con Coughlin and attributed to a 'British banking official'. As the trial revealed, said official came from MI6, who had been supplying Coughlin with material ...

... which is consciously produced and/or disseminated for propaganda purposes, often by people with direct or indirect links to the intelligence services of countries that are members of either NATO or the Warsaw Pact. These works, being designed primarily to manipulate public perceptions and thereby generate support for the adoption of certain desired policies, contain a considerable amount of disinformation and sometimes appear to constitute components of more extensive psychological operations. (5) This type of literature is by now quite common on both sides. On the Western side, (6) it includes the highly influential books by Paul B. Henze (7) and Claire Sterling, (8) lesser known works by Vendelin Slugenov ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 42) Winter 2001/2 Last| Contents| Next Issue 42 UFOs and disinformation In Lobster 40 I wrote about a long-term operation by elements within the US military and intelligence services to disinform those interested in UFOs. More information on this has subsequently come to light. The MAJESTIC mystery solved? The real author of this section is Martin Cannon: I have just rewritten his e-mail to me. The background is the long-running controversy about the so-called MAJESTIC papers, documents apparently leaked to the UFO researcher William Moore in the 1980s, purporting to come from a super-secret US government committee of the 1950s which was handling the UFO issue at the time ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 46) Winter 2003 Last| Contents| Next Issue 46 Abuse Your Illusions: the Disinformation guide to media mirages and establishment lies Russ Kick (ed) New York, The Disinformation Company, 2003, 350pp, $24.95/ £17.99 (available in the UK from Counter Productions and Turnaround Distribution) ISBN 0-9713942-4-5 Richard Alexander This is the third compilation of essays from Disinformation, and, unlike the first two, nearly all the essays in this anthology have been written specifically for this publication, with some being adapted from chapters in books and only the odd one or two being taken from the Internet. However, like the first two volumes ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 2) November 1983 Last| Contents| Next Issue 2 PERMINDEX: The International Trade in Disinformation Stephen Dorril On the 12th February 1967, Rosemary James of the New Orleans States-Item newspaper discovered that Jim Garrison, District Attorney of New Orleans, had spent more than $8 ,000 on his own investigation of the assassination of John Kennedy. (The story appeared on the front page on February 20th.) Two weeks later the DA's office announced the arrest of Clay Shaw, a wealthy New Orleans businessman and real estate developer, on charges of conspiring to assassinate Kennedy. From then on Garrison's enquiry took place in the full glare of the ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 44) Winter 2002 Last| Contents| Next Issue 44 Everything You Know is Wrong: the Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies Russ Kick (ed.) New York: the Disinformation Company, 2002, pb, $24.95. Distributed in the UK by Turnaround (orders@turnaround-uk.com) £17.99 in the UK Another massive anthology from the Disinformation people. This is 11" by 9"- roughly A4 sized- 345 pages, weighing in at 2 lbs and 11 ounces. Picking it up probably counts as low impact aerobics. The rear cover tells us that in it 'an amazing group of investigative journalists, researchers, commentators, ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 42) Winter 2001/2 Last| Contents| Next Issue 42 You Are Being Lied To: the Disinformation guide to media distortion, historical whitewashes and cultural myths Russ Kick (ed.), Disinformation, 2001, $19.95, ISBN 0-9664100-7-6. Available from http://store.disinfo.com. Phil Edwards I once sat in on an interesting conversation between two well known writers on the underside of politics. At one point, one of them alluded disparagingly to one of the scruffier areas of the conspiracy fringe- UFOs, maybe. The other reacted immediately: 'Oh, you don't want to go there!' The first agreed enthusiastically, ...

... . (That 'Listener', incidentally, is the Australian Listener, not the UK version). In WPR No5 Wilkes reports on official US government refutation of the alleged US involvement in the coup, written by a USIS officer in Wellington. We reprint this here. The annotations and comments are by Wilkes. East/West Issues USIS DISINFORMATION AND THE FIJI MILITARY COUP On May 14, 1987, Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka seized power in a military coup in Fiji, displacing the elected government of Dr. Timoci Bavadra. The coup was condemned by the United States Government which stated its opposition to the overthrow of a democratically elected government and, under the requirement of U.S. law ...